Summary

In Chapter 28, Silas pedals back to town at 3 a.m. and visits the rubble of June's old house. He remembers how Luke was always a good guy and how he never got angry at Silas and the others even when they goofed off. Silas's mother, after the accident, disparaged Luke as a druggie then spoke the same way about Luke's mother, Lydia. Silas followed Lydia thinking of her household as her guardian, but he could never muster the courage to tell her the truth about his role in the accident. He returns to Lydia’s house and knocks, intent on telling her the truth about the accident. She threatens to call the police but he will not budge.

Lydia, in Chapter 29, buckles her seat belt in preparation for the first flight of her life. She has heard Silas’s tormented relation of the...